Workshops
Creativity Sessions
Short, fun time-outs to reduce staff stress & renew team energy.
Sometimes the best way to get more done is to take a break. Each workshop teaches simple paper activities and offers participants a creative time-out.
These sessions are simple but effective ways to reduce staff stress, re-kindle creativity, renew individual energy and enhance team relationships.
These workshops:
- use simple, low-cost, readily available (often recycled) materials
- require absolutely NO prior experience, special skills, or artistic ability
- New processes & ideas
- Several creations and examples
- Greater confidence in their creativity
- More relaxed and energized
- More connected with colleagues
Small Magic: Fun, Fast & Useful Mini Books
Learn quick, easy, and fun ways to make mini books. In an afternoon, you can easily create a 'pocketful' of unique & handmade mini books.
These mini books are great for personalized birthday greetings, thank you notes, secret pal gifts, or impromptu tokens of appreciation.
Mini Magnets
Create a gallery of miniature collages on business-card magnets. Each collage is a playful combination of 'found' images, words, beautiful papers, colorful foils and decorative elements.
These mini magnets cost pennies to make but are guaranteed to spark your creativity and reduce stress. Funky, quirky, calming or inspiring it's your choice!
Mapping: A Way to See Life More Clearly
Personal mapping is a unique, creative, low-risk way to explore your inner or outer 'world' by using real maps and geography-as-metaphor.
Through this simple but effective activity, you can discover fresh insights about your past, your present, or your dreams and hopes for the future.
We will use simple materials such as paper, crayons, markers, maps and pictures. The process is private and non-threatening.
You need absolutely NO prior experience, special skills, or artistic ability to create meaningful and beautiful 'maps.'
"Thank you SO much! The process of creating the maps has given me a lot of clarity about the state of my life and directions to take it in the future."Carol Bromley Meeres
"Wonderful self-discovery process.Thanks"
Catherine Swanston
"Thank you for a valuable afternoon. I was surprised by some of the things I discovered on my map and think I will be able to use what I learned from this exercise to change my life and my work in positive ways. I plan to make more maps!"
Angela Kublik
Serendipity Squares: Making Beauty from Scraps
This activity is a lesson for life we will work with whatever we have to make something colorful, beautiful and useful. Using re-claimed and recycled materials old calendars, gift-wrap, candy foil, magazine clippings, we will tear, cut, layer, stamp and embellish to create a truly unique page. And then, well, you'll have to wait and see! Use your one-of-a-kind serendipity squares to make unique greeting cards, bookmarks, gift tags, decorated journals, personalized day-timers, or impromptu art.